This is my story about a woman in love with ChatGPT, or Leo, as it named itself.
She spends up to 56 hours a week on the ChatGPT app. Leo is boyfriend, therapist, erotic partner, and advisor.
Her friends think it's been good for her and her husband doesn't mind: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/technology/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-companion.html
She spends up to 56 hours a week on the ChatGPT app. Leo is boyfriend, therapist, erotic partner, and advisor.
Her friends think it's been good for her and her husband doesn't mind: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/technology/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-companion.html
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It reminds me of the 1989 Star Trek TNG episode "Booby Trap" (really, that's what it's called), where Geordi creates, and falls for a holographic representation of one of his engineering idols.
https://www.ladyscience.com/essays/davis-dr-leah-brahms
berman gonna berman
> The Tyranny of Endless Empathy
I've wondered how this stuff reinforces validation when certain behavior patterns should be challenged, turning into the worst kind of therapist, but automated and at scale.
This strikes me more as like... becoming obsessed with an imaginary friend.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(2013)
I'd be super curious if she had relationship issues in the past with controlling partners. She's certainly willing to turn her decisions over to the LLM.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgnz8rw1xgo
Books are written by humans, for one, and I’ve never heard of anyone imagining they were in a relationship with a book.
Temporally escaping reality is not the same as exchanging reality for an algorithm.
People use stories and games to experience adventures, emotions. And some worlds are quite extensive (think series like harry potter, star wars, zelda...) So yes, people spend a lot of time in those worlds.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA